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SCOM 2012 R2 AGENT INSTALLATION

FOR WINDOWS

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table of contents

1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 2

2 SCOM 2012 R2 Agents Supported Operating System ................................................ 3

3 Agent Push ................................................................................................... 4

4 Agent manual installation ................................................................................. 7

4.1 MSXML 6.0 installation steps if you install on Windows 2003 if not please skip. ......................... 7 4.2 Agent Installation steps ................................................................................................................ 9

5 Certificates configuration .............................................................................. 13

6 Agent approval ............................................................................................ 14

7 Agent act as proxy configuration ..................................................................... 15

8 Agent failover configuration ........................................................................... 16

9 Active Directory Management Pack Helper Object ............................................... 17



1 Introduction

The below are the deferent type of the SCOM agent deployment/installations.



2 SCOM 2012 R2 Agents Supported Operating System

Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1.

File system: %SYSTEMDRIVE% must be formatted with the NTFS file system.

Processor Architectures: x64, x86.

Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) version: Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 is

required when installing on Windows Server 2003.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 or Windows PowerShell 3.0 --- > required to run OpsMgr

MPs that use PowerShell Scripts.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or later.



3 Agent Push

Agent push can only be performed for computers located in the same domain as the Management Servers or in fully trusted domains (bi-directional).

Note that agent push from the console are automatically updated if the Management Servers has been updated.

Open the console with a

SCOM administrator account.

Go to the Administration

panel, right-click on Device

Management and select

Discovery Wizard.

Select Windows computers

then click next.



Check Advanced discovery,

select Servers Only or Client

Only or both and select the

Management Server or

Gateway on which the

agent(s) will be attached.

Check Browse for, or type-in

computer names and enter

the list of computers (FQDN)

you want to deploy agent on.

Enter the information of an

account that has administrator

privileges on the target

machines and click on

Discover.



Select the agent that have

passed the discovery checks

and select Agent as

Management Mode.

Leave the default parameters

and click on Finish.

Agent has been successfully

installed.



4 Agent manual installation

The following steps have to be done locally with an administrator account. The agent’s sources are available.

4.1 MSXML 6.0 installation steps if you install on Windows 2003 if not please skip.

Double-click on msxml6.msi.

This is the version for x64

servers; there is also an x86

version available of msxml6

on the SCOM media if

needed.

This pop-up may appear,

click on Yes.

Leave the welcome screen.



Select I agree the terms in

the license agreement.

Enter a Name and a

Company name.

Click on Install.



Once installation is finished,

close the wizard.

4.2 Agent Installation steps

First, make sure the agent can resolve the gateway FQDN. If not you will need to modify the %WINDIR%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file as follow. This example is for an agent on workgroup.

Run CMD as Administrator.



Type cd <Source location>, type MOMAgent.msi This is the x64 version of the msi, there is also a x86 version available on the gateway.

Leave the welcome screen.

Click I agree.



Use the default parameters.

Check Specify Management Group information.

Enter the Management Group Name, SCOM-MG, the Management Server name, GW001 and validate.



Use Local System as the Action Account.

Click on Install.

Once installation is complete, close the wizard.



5 Certificates configuration

At this time the agent is not able to communicate with its Gateway. Please refer to this link for certificates configuration.


http://waleedmostafa.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/scom-2012-r2-agents-gw-certificates-retrieval-and-installation/


6 Agent approval

Once certificates are configured and the agent is able to communicate with its parent, we need to approve it.

An entry should appear in the SCOM console for our agent in the Administration pane in the Pending Management folder. Right-click on it and select Approve.

Click on Approve.



7 Agent act as proxy configuration

Most of the SCOM Management packs need to enable agent act as proxy.

On the agent Properties check

the allow agent to act as proxy

option then click ok.



8 Agent failover configuration

To configure agent failover, connect to the Management Server using a SCOM administrator account and launch the Operations Manager Command Shell. Run the following commands (The agent must already have its primary server configured with the right one:

Open OpsMgr PowerShell as administrator, run the PS command.

$primaryMS = Get-SCOMManagementServer | where {$_.Name –eq ‘GW001’} $failoverMS = Get-SCOMManagementServer | where {$_.Name –eq ‘MS003’}

$agent = Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.Name -eq ‘RS007’} Set-SCOMParentManagementServer -Agent: $agent -PrimaryServer:

$primaryMS Set-SCOMParentManagementServer -Agent: $agent -FailoverServer:

$failoverMS

Verify the configuration PS command

$Agents = Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.PrimaryManagementServerName -eq ‘GW001’}

$Agents | sort | foreach { Write-Host "";

"Agent :: " + $_.Name; "–Primary MS :: " + ($_.GetPrimaryManagementServer()).ComputerName;

$failoverServers = $_.getFailoverManagementServers(); foreach ($managementServer in $failoverServers) {

"–Failover MS :: " + ($managementServer.ComputerName); } }

Write-Host "";



9 Active Directory Management Pack Helper Object

If the agent is installed on a domain controller, we need to install the Active Directory Helper Object.

Right-click on OOMADs.msi, then install, This is the x64 version of the tool. An x86 version is available in the SupportTools folder on the SCOM media.

Once installation is over close the window.


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